Michael Priest
Owner at Praxis Creative Art
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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SeniorMichael Priest is a seasoned prepress and graphic design professional with over three decades of experience in the printing industry and 14 years running his own studio, Praxis Creative Art, in Canberra. He combines deep technical mastery of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat with practical web skills in HTML, CSS and familiarity with PHP and jQuery to deliver business-focused print and web solutions. Comfortable with client-facing work at all levels, he prioritises design that enhances clients' commercial objectives rather than portfolio pieces. His long tenure in prepress gives him rare, hands-on expertise in production workflows and quality control that reduces costly print issues. As an owner-operator he blends creative craft with small-business acumen, making him a reliable partner for organisations seeking measurable design impact.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (88)
behat10
controller10
circleci10
symfony-console10
paas10
continuous-testing10
continuous-delivery10
cli10
continuous-deployment10
scaffold10
continuous-integration10
scripting10
knife10
openshift10
drupal10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
universityofadelaide/s2i-shepherd-drupal
Jul 2017 - Jun 2024
An S2I enabled image for hosting Drupal applications in OpenShift
Contributions:5 reviews, 14 PRs, 43 pushes in 7 years
hostingdockeropenshifts2idrupal
universityofadelaide/shepherd-drupal-scaffold
Mar 2017 - Feb 2025
Composer Plugin for updating the Shepherd Drupal tools.
Contributions:45 releases, 31 reviews, 81 PRs in 8 years
composer-pluginphpnamespacedrupalcomposer
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